reasons for client being disconnected

gnoblin

Hello!

From time to time clients get disconnected - can this happen because player does nothing for some amount of time?
What can be the reasons for the disconnect?

thanks,
Slav

dreamora

No, doing nothing wouldn't lead to a disconnect

But if you didn't mark your player as running in background and he makes the window inactive / makes the webplayer inactive, that can cause it cause he simply will not process any networking anymore and in consequence not send the 'I'm still alive' ping message or anything, making the connection timeout

gnoblin

yeah, I know about runInBackground thing

dreamora

then the alternative is that you send to much data (large data blobs), that gets you kicked out too in case of LoadBalancing instance or cloud

Tobias

You could get disconnected when you send too much (many many PhotonViews or some that generate a lot of data), receive too much (long running room with lots of instantiates and buffered RPCs) or if you prevent the engine from calling Update (which is needed to call networkingPeer.SendOoutgoingCommands).

A common scenario for the "Update not being called" is a bad framerate or when loading scenes. There is a "workaround" for loading scenes:

        // Temporary disable processing of futher network messages
        PhotonNetwork.isMessageQueueRunning = false;
        Application.LoadLevel(Application.loadedLevelName);